Other than the Scenario rewards, I've been going with numbers 1 and 3. Can't say I've been going for the bleed edge farming every amazing piece of gear, but will keep stuff in my bags that I replaced with raid gear.

Simcraft has a challenge mode setting, not sure how accurate it is but will probably be a good yard stick. All I know is, Sha needs to give up the Jaws of Terror.

Just FYI, unless it's been fixed in the last few days, higher ilevel gear doesn't scale perfectly. Make sure you're checking your own stats on things and not just assuming the scaling is correct. Specifically, you absolutely do get more stats from better gear than you would from the same 463 blue, or even the heroic version of an item vs the lfr version.

Just FYI, unless it's been fixed in the last few days, higher ilevel gear doesn't scale perfectly. Make sure you're checking your own stats on things and not just assuming the scaling is correct. Specifically, you absolutely do get more stats from better gear than you would from the same 463 blue, or even the heroic version of an item vs the lfr version.